# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alpay-ozalan
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:27:13.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alpay-ozalan"
name: "Alpay Özalan"
slug: "alpay-ozalan"
description: "Fehmi Alpay Özalan, known mononymously as Alpay, is a Turkish former professional footballer, football manager and politician. He last worked as the manager of Samsunspor. He played 90 international games for Turkey between 1995 and 2005, making him Turkey's seventh-most capped player of all time. This included performances at two European Championships and the 2002 World Cup, in which he was selected for the Team of the Tournament. Since 2018, he is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) for İzmir."
tagline: "Turkish association football player (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alpay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1973-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.53122533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/alpayozalan35"
    handle:    "alpayozalan35"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alpayozalan.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump